Example sentences of "it be [adj] [prep] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's sad in some ways . |
| 2 | It 's traditional in some ways but the brothers who own the hotel , Julio and Alfonso , have come to know exactly what the Club 18–30 holidaymaker is looking for . |
| 3 | It 's not that it 's patronising in any way — it is n't — it 's just that there are lots of words describing a simple process . |
| 4 | It is similar in many ways to its more aristocratic relative , but the characteristics of its wines are less well defined . |
| 5 | It is sad in several ways , not just because it springs from genuine human grief but because poor Uncle Ted , no matter how theologically illiterate he may have been , deserves better . |
| 6 | Although the monkey/Shakespeare model is useful for explaining the distinction between single-step selection and cumulative selection , it is misleading in important ways . |
| 7 | It is not suggested that it is negligent in any way . |
| 8 | So I have treated quantification here as methodological : it is part of the analytic phase of social dialectology , and it is parallel in this way to the use of quantification and statistics in certain other sciences . |
| 9 | It is general in two ways . |
| 10 | Because it is the mating act in cats that induces ovulation , it is possible in this way to start the female cat 's ovulation as if she is carrying male sperm . |
| 11 | Rather , as was mentioned , it is concerned in several ways with parts of such circumstances , often enough a single condition . |
| 12 | It is unencumbered in any way and therefore females are generally used , being smaller and less powerful than the males . |
| 13 | AJR procedure is rather similar to summons procedure , but it is different in important ways from writ procedure . |
| 14 | In fact , because only half an inch was involved it was impossible to see from the outside of my right shoe that it was different in any way from my left . |
| 15 | Or again , independent nomic conditionals come to this : Given the rest of the world as it was , or given that it was different in any way we can conceive it as [ icing , without logically " excluding a and b , then if a happened so did b . |